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Sensationalist Literature and Popular Culture in the Early American Republic
| Author: | Pitcher, Edward Hartigan, D. | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Pages: | 414 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-7572-9 978-0-7734-7572-4 | |
| Price: | $259.95 | |
Previous samplers have not swept together the variety that the present editors have gathered, not invited readers to study this literature as part of a reassessment of ‘taste’ within the general populace of the early American republic, especially in the years 1780-1810.
Table of Contents
Table of contents (Main headings):
Courting Credulity; Ghosts, Apparitions, Tall Tales; Crimes and Confessions; Extraordinary Masculinities; Evites, Amazons, and Fabulous Females; Fantastic and Harrowing Voyages; Exotic Lands and Strange Customs; Marvels of Science and Medicine; Marvellous Animals, Creatures, and Beasts; Sensational Journalism; Works Cited
Courting Credulity; Ghosts, Apparitions, Tall Tales; Crimes and Confessions; Extraordinary Masculinities; Evites, Amazons, and Fabulous Females; Fantastic and Harrowing Voyages; Exotic Lands and Strange Customs; Marvels of Science and Medicine; Marvellous Animals, Creatures, and Beasts; Sensational Journalism; Works Cited